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Print Price: $99.00

Format:
Paperback
552 pp.
152 mm x 226 mm

ISBN-13:
9780788505409

Publication date:
December 2000

Imprint: OUP US


Language, Truth, and Religious Belief

Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion

Edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry and Hans H. Penner

Series : AAR Texts and Translations Series, 19

Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essays on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.

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  • "They are essays which students of religion should know and be able to evaluate critically."-- Theology Digest

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Hans Penner is at Dartmouth College.

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